US9326385B2 - LED package manufacturing system and resin coating method in LED package manufacturing system - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to an LED package manufacturing system that manufactures an LED package in which an LED element mounted on a substrate is coated with a resin containing a phosphor, and a resin coating method in the LED package manufacturing system.
- LEDs light emitting diodes having excellent characteristics that a power consumption is low, and a lifetime is long have been used as light sources of various lighting devices extensively.
- fundamental lights emitted by the LED elements are limited to three lights of red, green, and blue as of now, in order to obtain a suitable while light as a general lighting intended purpose, there are used a method of obtaining the while light by additively mixing the above-mentioned three fundamental lights together, and a method of obtaining an artificial white light by combination of a blue LED with the phosphor that emits a yellow fluorescence having a complementary relationship with the blue.
- the latter method has been used extensively, and the lighting device using the LED package combining the blue LED with a YAG phosphor is used for backlight of a liquid crystal panel (for example, refer to Patent Literature 1).
- the LED package is configured in such a manner that after the LED elements have been mounted on a bottom surface of a recessed mounting portion having a reflection surface formed on a side wall, a silicone resin or an epoxy resin having YAG phosphor grains dispersed therein is poured into the mounting portion where the YAG phosphor grains are dispersed within the mounting portion to form a resin packaged portion.
- the patent literature discloses an example in which for the purpose of achieving an even height of the resin packaged portion within the mounting portion into which the resin has been poured, an excess resin storage portion into which a poured excess resin of a defined amount or more is discharged from the mounting portion and stored is formed. With this configuration, even if the amount of discharge from a dispenser is dispersed at the time of pouring the resin, the resin packaged portion having a given amount of resin and a defined height is formed on each of the LED elements.
- each of the LED elements is subject to a manufacturing process of forming a plurality of elements on a wafer in a lump. Due to a variety of error factors in the manufacturing process, for example, an uneven composition at the time of forming a film in the wafer, the LED elements divided from a wafer state into pieces cannot prevent the light emitting wavelength from being varied.
- the conventional LED package manufacturing technique suffers from such a problem that the variation in the light emitting wavelength in the pieces of LED elements causes the variation in the light emitting characteristics of the LED package as the product, resulting in the deterioration of a production yield.
- an object of the present invention is to provide an LED package manufacturing system and a resin coating method, which can achieve the even light emitting characteristics of the LED package to improve the production yield even if the light emitting wavelengths of the pieces of LED elements are varied in the LED package manufacturing system.
- an LED package manufacturing system that manufactures an LED package in which an LED element mounted on a substrate is covered with a resin containing a phosphor therein, the LED package manufacturing system including: a component mounting device that mounts a plurality of LED elements on the substrate; element characteristic information providing unit for providing information obtained by measuring light emitting characteristics of the plurality of LED elements including a light emitting wavelength in advance, individually, as element characteristic information; resin information providing unit for providing information associating an appropriate resin coating amount of the resin for obtaining the LED package having specified light emitting characteristics with the element characteristic information, as resin coating information; map data creating unit for creating map data associating mounting position information indicative of positions of the LED elements mounted by the component mounting device on the substrate with the element characteristic information on the LED elements for each substrate; and a resin coating device that coats the resin of the appropriate resin coating amount for providing specific light emitting characteristics on the respective LED elements mounted on the substrate, on the basis of the map data and the resin coating information.
- the resin coating device includes: a resin coating unit that discharges the resin of a variable coating amount to coat the resin at an arbitrary position to be coated; a coating control unit that controls the resin coating unit to execute measurement coating processing of coating the resin on a translucent member on trial as light emitting characteristic measurement, and to execute production coating processing of coating the resin on the LED elements as real production; a translucent member mounting unit having a light source unit that emits an excitation light for exciting the phosphor, on which the translucent member coated with the resin on trial in the measurement coating processing is mounted; a light emitting characteristic measurement unit that irradiates the resin coated on the translucent member with the excitation light emitted from the light source unit to measure the light emitting characteristics of the light emitted by the resin; a coating amount derivation processing unit that obtains a deviation between a measurement result of the light emitting characteristic measurement unit and the light emitting characteristics specified in advance, and corrects the appropriate resin coating amount on the basis of the deviation to derive an appropriate resin coating amount for the real production to be coated on the LED elements
- a resin coating method in an LED package manufacturing system that manufactures an LED package in which an LED element mounted on a substrate is covered with a resin containing a phosphor therein, in which the resin is coated on a plurality of LED elements mounted on the substrate by the component mounting device
- the LED package manufacturing system including: a component mounting device that mounts the plurality of LED elements on the substrate; element characteristic information providing unit for providing information obtained by measuring light emitting characteristics of the plurality of LED elements including a light emitting wavelength in advance, individually, as element characteristic information; resin information providing unit for providing information associating an appropriate resin coating amount of the resin for obtaining the LED package having specified light emitting characteristics with the element characteristic information, as resin coating information; map data creating unit for creating map data associating mounting position information indicative of positions of the LED elements mounted by the component mounting device on the substrate with the element characteristic information on the LED elements for each substrate; and a resin coating device that coats the resin of the appropriate resin coating amount for providing regular light emitting characteristics required for a completed product on
- the even light emitting characteristics of the LED package can be achieved to improve the production yield.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an LED package manufacturing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 2A and 2B are illustrative views of a configuration of an LED package manufactured by the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D are illustrative views illustrating a supply configuration and element characteristic information of LED elements used in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is an illustrative view of resin coating information used in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 5A, 5B, and 5C are illustrative views of a configuration and a function of a component mounting device in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is an illustrative view of map data used in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 7A and 7B are illustrative views of a configuration and a function of a resin coating device in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 8A, 8B, and 8C are illustrative views of a light emitting characteristic inspection function provided in the resin coating device in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a control system in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 10 is a flowchart of LED package manufacture in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 11 is a flowchart of threshold data creation processing for non-defective product determination in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 12A, 12B, and 12C are illustrative views of the threshold data for the non-defective product determination in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 13 is a chromaticity diagram illustrating the threshold data for the non-defective product determination in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 14 is a flowchart of resin coating operation processing in an LED package manufacturing process in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 15A, 15B, 15C, and 15D are illustrative views of the resin coating operation processing in the LED package manufacturing process in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 16A, 16B, 16C, and 16D are illustrative views illustrating steps of the LED package manufacturing process in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 17A, 17B, 170, and 17D are illustrative views illustrating steps of the LED package manufacturing process in the LED package manufacturing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
- the LED package manufacturing system 1 has a function of manufacturing an LED package in which each LED element mounted on a substrate is covered with a resin containing a phosphor therein.
- the respective devices of a component mounting device M 1 , a curing device M 2 , a wire bonding device M 3 , a resin coating device M 4 , a curing device M 5 , and a piece cutting device M 6 are connected to each other by a LAN system 2 , and a management computer 3 controls those respective devices in the lump.
- the component mounting device M 1 bonds each LED element 5 to a substrate 4 (refer to FIG. 2 ) which is a base of the LED package with a resin adhesive to mount the LED element 5 on the substrate 4 .
- the curing device M 2 heats the substrate 4 on which the LED element 5 has been mounted to cure the resin adhesive used for bonding at the time of mounting.
- the wire bonding device M 3 connects electrodes of the substrate 4 to electrodes of the LED element 5 by bonding wire.
- the resin coating device M 4 coats each of the LED elements 5 on the substrate 4 subjected to wiring bonding with the resin containing the phosphor.
- the curing device M 5 heats the substrate 4 on which the resin has been coated, to thereby cure the resin coated over the LED element 5 .
- the piece cutting device M 6 cuts the substrate 4 on which the resin has been cured for each of the LED elements 5 , and divides the substrate 4 into pieces of the LED packages. As a result, the LED packages divided into the pieces are completed.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an example in which the respective devices of the component mounting device M 1 to the piece cutting device M 6 are arranged in series to configure a manufacturing line.
- the LED package manufacturing system 1 does not always need to employ the line configuration of this type.
- the respective process operation may be sequentially executed by the respective dispersed devices.
- a plasma processing device that conducts plasma processing for the purpose of cleaning the electrodes prior to the wire bonding, and a plasma processing device that conducts plasma processing for the purpose of surface modification to improve the adhesion of the resin prior to the resin coating after the wire bonding may be disposed before and after the wire bonding device M 3 .
- the substrate 4 is a multiple substrate in which a plurality of piece substrates 4 a each forming a base of one LED package 50 in the completed product is formed.
- Each of the piece substrates 4 a is formed with one LED mounting portion 4 b in which each of the LED elements 5 is mounted.
- the LED element 5 is mounted within the LED mounting portion 4 b , and thereafter a resin 8 is coated over the LED element 5 within the LED mounting portion 4 b . Further, after the resin 8 has been cured, the processed substrate 4 is cut for each of the piece substrates 4 a , to thereby complete the LED package 50 illustrated in FIG. 2B .
- the LED package 50 has a function of emitting a white light used as a light source of the various lighting devices, and combines the LED element 5 which is a blue LED with the resin 8 containing the phosphor that emits a yellow fluorescence having a complementary relationship with the blue to obtain an artificial while light.
- a cavity-shaped reflector portion 4 c having, for example, a circular or oval annular dam that forms the LED mounting portion 4 b is disposed on each of the piece substrates 4 a .
- n-type electrode 6 a and a p-type electrode 6 b of the LED element 5 mounted inside of the reflector portion 4 c are connected to wiring layers 4 e and 4 d formed on an upper surface of the piece substrate 4 a by bonding wires 7 , respectively.
- the resin 8 covers the LED element 5 of this state, and is coated with a given thickness inside of the reflector portion 4 c .
- the blue light is mixed with the yellow light emitted by the phosphor contained in the resin 8 , and irradiated as the white light.
- the LED element 5 laminates an n-type semiconductor 5 b and a p-type semiconductor 5 c on a sapphire substrate 5 a , and further coats a surface of the p-type semiconductor 5 c with a transparent electrode 5 d .
- the n-type semiconductor 5 b and the p-type semiconductor 5 c are formed with an n-type electrode 6 a and a p-type electrode 6 b for external connection, respectively.
- the LED elements 5 are taken out of an LED wafer 10 adhesively held on a holding sheet 10 a in a state where the plurality of LED elements 5 has been divided into the pieces after having been formed in a lump.
- the LED elements 5 divided from the wafer state into the pieces are not prevented from being varied in the light emitting characteristics such as the light emitting wavelength.
- the LED elements 5 are mounted on the substrate 4 as they are, the light emitting characteristics of the LED packages 50 as the products are varied.
- the light emitting characteristics of the plurality of LED elements 5 manufactured in the same manufacturing process is measured in advance, the element characteristic information associating the respective LED elements 5 with data indicative of the light emitting characteristics of the LED elements 5 is created in advance, and the resin 8 of an appropriate amount corresponding to the light emitting characteristics of the respective LED elements 5 is coated in coating the resin 8 . Then, in order to coat the resin 8 of the appropriate amount, resin coating information to be described later is prepared in advance.
- the element characteristic information will be described. As illustrated in FIG. 3C , after element IDs (in this example, the individual LED elements 5 are identified by serial numbers (i) in the LED wafer 10 ) for identifying the respective LED elements 5 are assigned to the LED elements 5 taken out of the LED wafer 10 , the LED elements 5 are sequentially loaded to a light emitting characteristic measurement device 11 . If the element ID is information that can specify the LED elements 5 , individually, another data format, for example, matrix coordinates representing a matrix of the LED elements 5 in the LED wafer 10 may be used as they are. With the use of the element IDs of this format, the LED elements 5 can be supplied while being held in a state of the LED wafer 10 , in the component mounting device M 1 which will be described later.
- an electric power is supplied to the respective LED elements 5 through a probe to really emit a light.
- the light is spectroscopically analyzed to measure given items such as the light emitting wavelength and the light emitting intensity.
- a standard distribution of the light emitting wavelengths is prepared as reference data in advance, and a wavelength range corresponding to a standard range in the distribution is sectioned into a plurality of wavelength bands.
- the plurality of LED elements 5 to be measured is rated according to the light emitting wavelength.
- Bin codes [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5] are assigned to the respective ranks set by sectioning the wavelength range into five pieces in the order from a low wavelength side.
- element characteristic information 12 of a data formation associating Bin codes 12 b with element IDs 12 a is created.
- the element characteristic information 12 is information obtained by measuring the light emitting characteristics including the light emitting wavelengths of the plurality of LED elements 5 in advance, individually.
- the element characteristic information 12 is prepared by LED element manufacturers in advance, and transmitted to the LED package manufacturing system 1 .
- the element characteristic information 12 may be transmitted in the form of being record in an independent recording medium, or may be transmitted to the management computer 3 through the LAN system 2 . In any cases, the transmitted element characteristic information 12 may be stored in the management computer 3 , and supplied to the component mounting device M 1 as occasion demands.
- the plurality of LED elements 5 that has been thus subjected to the light emitting characteristic measurement is sorted for each of characteristic ranks as illustrated in FIG. 3D , sorted to five kinds according to the respective characteristic ranks, and adhered to five adhesive sheets 13 a , individually.
- three kinds of LED sheets 13 A, 13 B, 13 C, 13 D, and 13 E in which the LED elements 5 corresponding to the respective Bin codes [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5] are adhesively held on the adhesive sheets 13 a are prepared.
- the LED elements 5 are mounted on the piece substrates 4 a of the substrate 4 , the LED elements 5 are supplied to the component mounting device M 1 in the configuration of the LED sheets 13 A, 13 B, 13 C, 13 D, and 13 E that have thus already been rated.
- the element characteristic information 12 is provided from the management computer 3 in the form of which of the Bin codes [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5] the LED element 5 corresponding to is held in each of the LED sheets 13 A, 13 B, 13 C, 13 D, and 13 E.
- the resin coating information prepared to correspond to the above-mentioned element characteristic information 12 in advance will be described with reference to FIG. 4 .
- the blue light emitted by the LED elements 5 is additively mixed with the yellow light emitted from the phosphor excited by the blue light. For that reason, the amount of phosphor grains within the recessed LED mounting portion 4 b in which each of the LED elements 5 is mounted becomes an important element in ensuring the regular light emitting characteristics of the LED package 50 as the product.
- a Bin categorical appropriate resin coating amount of the resin 8 containing the YAG phosphor grains in a silicone resin or an epoxy resin is defined on an nl (nanoliter) unit according to a Bin code segment 17 in advance.
- the amount of phosphor grains in the resin that covers the LED element 5 becomes an appropriate phosphor grain supply amount, to thereby ensure a regular light emitting wavelength obtained for the completed product after the resin has been thermally cured.
- a plurality of phosphor concentrations (in this example, three kinds of D 1 (5%), D 2 (10%), and D 3 (15%)) indicative of the concentration of the phosphor grains in the resin 8 is set, and numeral values corresponding to the phosphor concentrations of the resin 8 also using the appropriate resin coating amount of the resin 8 are used. That is, when the resin of the phosphor concentration D 1 is coated, the resin 8 of appropriate resin coating amounts VA 0 , VB 0 , VC 0 , VD 0 , and VE 0 (appropriate resin coating amount 15 ( 1 )) is coated on the respective Bin codes [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5].
- the resin 8 of appropriate resin coating amounts VF 0 , VG 0 , VH 0 , VJ 0 , and VK 0 (appropriate resin coating amount 15 ( 2 )) is coated on the respective Bin codes [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5].
- the resin 8 of appropriate resin coating amounts VL 0 , VM 0 , VN 0 , VP 0 , and VR 0 (appropriate resin coating amount 15 ( 3 )) is coated on the respective Bin codes [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5].
- the reason why the appropriate resin coating amount is thus set for each of the plurality of different phosphor concentrations is because it is more preferable to coat the resin 8 of the appropriate phosphor concentration according to the degree of variation of the light emitting wavelength, from the viewpoint of the quality assurance.
- the component mounting device M 1 includes a substrate transport mechanism 21 that transports the substrate 4 to be worked which is supplied from an upstream side in a substrate transport direction (arrow a).
- a substrate transport mechanism 21 that transports the substrate 4 to be worked which is supplied from an upstream side in a substrate transport direction (arrow a).
- an adhesive coating portion A illustrated by a cross-section A-A in FIG. 5B and a component mounting portion B illustrated by a cross-section B-B in FIG. 4C are arranged in the order from the upstream side.
- the adhesive coating portion A includes an adhesive supply unit 22 that is arranged laterally of the substrate transport mechanism 21 , and supplies a resin adhesive 23 in the form of a coating having a given thickness, and an adhesive transfer mechanism 24 that is movable in a horizontal direction (arrow b) above the substrate transport mechanism 21 and the adhesive supply unit 22 .
- the component mounting portion B includes a component supply mechanism 25 that is arranged laterally of the substrate transport mechanism 21 , and holds the LED sheets 13 A, 13 B, 13 C, 130 , and 13 E, and a component mounting mechanism 26 that is movable in the horizontal direction (arrow c) above the substrate transport mechanism 21 and the component supply mechanism 25 .
- the substrate 4 carried into the substrate transport mechanism 21 is positioned in the adhesive coating portion A, and the resin adhesive 23 is coated on the LED mounting portion 4 b formed in each of the piece substrates 4 a . That is, the adhesive transfer mechanism 24 is first moved above the adhesive supply unit 22 , brings a transfer pin 24 a in contact with a coating film of the resin adhesive 23 formed on a transfer surface 22 a , and attaches the resin adhesive 23 to the transfer pin 24 a .
- the adhesive transfer mechanism 24 is moved above the substrate 4 , the transfer pin 24 a is moved down to the LED mounting portion 4 b (arrow d), and the resin adhesive 23 attached to the transfer pin 24 a is supplied to an element mounting position within the LED mounting portion 4 b by transferring.
- the substrate 4 that has been coated with the adhesive is transported to a downstream side, and positioned by the component mounting portion B as illustrated in FIG. 5C , and the LED elements 5 are mounted on the respective LED mounting portions 4 b that have been supplied with the adhesive. That is, the component mounting mechanism 26 is first moved above the component supply mechanism 25 , a mounting nozzle 26 a is moved down to any one of the LED sheets 13 A, 13 B, 13 C, 13 D, and 13 E which are held by the component supply mechanism 25 , and the LED element 5 is held and taken out by the mounting nozzle 26 a .
- the component mounting mechanism 26 is moved above the LED mounting portion 4 b of the substrate 4 , and the mounting nozzle 26 a is moved down (arrow e) whereby the LED element 5 held by the mounting nozzle 26 a is mounted at the element mounting position coated with the adhesive within the LED mounting portion 4 b.
- a component mounting operation is executed according to an element mounting program created in advance.
- an order of taking out the LED element 5 from any of the LED sheets 13 A, 13 B, 13 C, 13 D, and 13 E, and mounting the respective LED elements 5 on the plurality of piece substrates 4 a of the substrate 4 is preset.
- mounting position information 71 a (refer to FIG. 9 ) indicating on which of the plural piece substrates 4 a of the substrate 4 the individual LED element 5 is mounted is extracted from the operation execution history, and recorded.
- Data associating the mounting position information 71 a with the element characteristic information 12 indicating to which of the characteristic ranks (Bin codes [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5]) the LED elements 5 mounted on the individual piece substrates 4 a correspond is created as map data 18 illustrated in FIG. 6 by a map creation processing unit 74 (refer to FIG. 9 ).
- the individual position of the plurality of piece substrates 4 a in the substrate 4 is specified by the combination of matrix coordinates 19X and 19Y indicative of positions in an X-direction and a Y-direction, respectively.
- the Bin codes to which the LED elements 5 mounted at the positions belong are allowed to correspond to the individual cells of the matrix configured by the matrix coordinates 19X and 19Y.
- the component mounting device M 1 is configured to include the map creation processing unit 74 as map data creating unit for creating the map data 18 associating the mounting position information indicative of the positions of the LED elements 5 mounted by the above device on the substrate 4 with the element characteristic information 12 on the LED elements 5 for each substrate 4 .
- the map data 18 thus created is transmitted to the resin coating device M 4 described below through the LAN system 2 as feed forward data.
- the resin coating device M 4 has a function of coating the resin 8 over the plurality of LED elements 5 mounted on the substrate 4 by the component mounting device M 1 .
- the resin coating device M 4 is configured to arrange a resin coating portion C indicated by a cross-section C-C in FIG. 7B in a substrate transport mechanism 31 that transports the substrate 4 to be worked, which is supplied from the upstream side, in a substrate transport direction (arrow f).
- the resin coating portion C is provided with a resin discharge head 32 configured to discharge the resin 8 from a discharge nozzle 33 a mounted on a lower end portion.
- the resin discharge head 32 is driven by a nozzle transfer mechanism 34 , and the nozzle transfer mechanism 34 is controlled by a coating control unit 36 , to thereby conduct the travel operation and the move up/down operation in the horizontal direction (arrow g indicated in FIG. 7A ).
- the resin 8 is supplied to the resin discharge head 32 in a state where the resin 8 is accommodated in a syringe fitted to a dispenser 33 , and an air pressure is applied into the dispenser 33 by a resin discharge mechanism 35 , as a result of which the resin 8 within the dispenser 33 is discharged through the discharge nozzle 33 a , and coated on the LED mounting portion 4 b formed on the substrate 4 .
- the resin discharge mechanism 35 is controlled by the coating control unit 36 whereby the amount of discharge of the resin 8 can be arbitrarily controlled. That is, the resin coating portion C has a function of variably discharging the coating amount of the resin 8 , and coating the resin 8 at an arbitrary position to be coated.
- a trial coating and measurement unit 40 is located within a movable range of the resin discharge head 32 .
- the trial coating and measurement unit 40 has a function of determining whether the coating amount of resin 8 is proper, or not, by measurement of the light emitting characteristics of the resin 8 coated on trial, prior to real production coating operation of coating the resin 8 on the LED mounting portion 4 b of the substrate 4 . That is, the light emitting characteristics, when the light is emitted from the measurement light source unit to a translucent member 43 coated with the resin 8 on trial by the resin coating portion C, are measured by a light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 . The measurement result is compared with a preset threshold value. As a result, a coating amount derivation processing unit 38 determines whether the preset resin coating amount specified by the resin coating information 14 illustrated in FIG. 4 is proper, or not.
- the resin 8 containing the phosphor grains therein its composition and property are not always stable. However, even if the appropriate resin coating amount is set by the resin coating information 14 in advance, the concentration of the phosphor and the resin viscosity are not prevented from being varied with the elapse of a time. For that reason, even if the resin 8 is discharged by the discharge parameter corresponding to the preset appropriate resin coating amount, the resin coating amount per se may be varied from the preset appropriate value, or the amount of supply of the phosphor grains to be naturally supplied may be varied according to a change in the concentration even if the resin coating amount per se is proper.
- the trial coating for inspecting whether the phosphor grains of the proper supply amount are supplied, or not, at given intervals, is executed by the resin coating device M 4 , and the measurement of the light emitting characteristics is further executed on the resin coated on trial. As a result, the amount of supply of the phosphor grains is stabilized according to the original light emitting characteristics.
- the resin coating portion C provided in the resin coating device M 4 according to this embodiment has a function of executing measurement coating processing of coating the resin 8 on the translucent member 43 on trial as the above-mentioned light emitting characteristic measurement, and production coating processing of coating the resin 8 on the LED elements 5 mounted on the substrate 4 as real production, together.
- the measurement coating processing and the production coating processing are each executed by allowing the coating control unit 36 to control the resin coating portion C.
- the trial coating and measurement unit 40 is of an external structure in which a cover portion 40 b having a coating slide window 40 c slidable (arrow h ( FIG. 8 also needs to be amended)) with respect to a horizontal slender base portion 40 a is arranged.
- the trial coating and measurement unit 40 includes a trial coating stage 45 that supports the translucent member 43 from a lower surface side, a translucent member mounting portion 41 on which the translucent member 43 is mounted, and a spectroscope 42 that is disposed above the translucent member mounting portion 41 .
- the translucent member mounting portion 41 includes a light source portion that emits an excitation light for exciting the phosphor.
- the translucent member 43 coated with the resin 8 on trial in the measurement coating processing is irradiated with the excitation light from the lower surface side by the light source unit.
- the LED elements 5 sealed by the resin 8 containing no phosphor therein is used as the light source portion.
- the light emitting characteristic measurement of the resin 8 coated on trial can be conducted by a light having the same characteristics as those of the excitation light emitted in the LED package 50 of the completed product, and the inspection results higher in reliability can be obtained.
- the use of the same LED elements 5 as those used in the completed product is not always essential, but like the LED elements 5 , any light source device (for example, blue laser source) that emits a blue light having a constant wavelength can be used as the inspection light source unit.
- the translucent member 43 is wounded and accommodated on a supply reel 44 , supplied, and fed along an upper surface of the trial coating stage 45 (arrow i). Thereafter, the translucent member 43 passes between the translucent member mounting portion 41 and the spectroscope 42 , and is wound on a recovery reel 46 which is driven by a winding motor 47 .
- the translucent member 43 are used as a tape material having a given width which is formed of a planar sheet member made of a transparent resin, or an emboss type in which an emboss portion 43 a corresponding to a recess shape of the LED package 50 is embossed on the lower surface of the same tape material.
- the coating slide window 40 c is slid and opened, an upper surface of the trial coating stage 45 is exposed to above, and the resin 8 can be coated on the translucent member 43 mounted on the upper surface of the trial coating stage 45 on trial by the resin discharge head 32 .
- the trial coating is conducted on the translucent member 43 having a lower surface side supported by the trial coating stage 45 by discharging the resin 8 having a specified coating amount onto the translucent member 43 by the discharge nozzle 33 a as illustrated in FIG. 8B .
- FIG. 8B ( ⁇ ) illustrates a state in which the resin 8 of the preset appropriate discharge amount defined according to the resin coating information 14 is coated on the translucent member 43 made of the above-mentioned tape material. Also, FIG. 8B ( ⁇ ) illustrates a state in which the resin 8 of the preset appropriate discharge amount is similarly coated in an emboss portion 43 a of the translucent member 43 of the above-mentioned emboss type.
- the resin 8 coated by the trial coating stage 45 is a trial coating for empirically determining whether the phosphor supply amount to the target LED element 5 is proper, or not.
- FIG. 8C illustrates a state in which the translucent member 43 coated with the resin 8 by the trial coating stage 45 on trial is moved, the resin 8 is located above the translucent member mounting portion 41 , and further the cover portion 40 b is moved down to form a light emitting characteristic measurement dark room between the cover portion 40 b and the base portion 40 a .
- the translucent member mounting portion 41 there is used an LED package 50 * in which the resin 8 is replaced with a transparent resin 80 containing no phosphor grains in the LED package 50 .
- the wiring layers 4 e and 4 d connected to the LED element 5 are connected to a power supply device 48 . When the power supply device 48 turns on, an electric power for light emission is supplied to the LED elements 5 whereby the LED elements 5 emit the blue light.
- the phosphor in the resin 8 is excited, and the white light obtained by additively mixing the yellow light emitted by the phosphor with the blue light is emitted upward from the resin 8 .
- the spectroscope 42 is arranged above the trial coating and measurement unit 40 , and the white light emitted from the resin 8 is received by the spectroscope 42 , and the received white light is analyzed by the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 to measure the light emitting characteristics.
- the light emitting characteristics such as a color tone rank or a light flux of the white light are inspected, and as a result of the inspection result, a deviation between the measured light emitting characteristics and the specified light emitting characteristics is detected as the inspection result. That is, the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 irradiates the resin 8 coated on the translucent member 43 with the excitation light emitted from the LED element 5 which is the light source unit to measure the light emitting characteristics of the light emitted by the resin 8 .
- the measurement result of the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 is transmitted to the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 .
- the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 conducts processing of obtaining a deviation between the measurement result of the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 and the light emitting characteristics defined in advance, and deriving the appropriate resin coating amount of the resin 8 to be coated on the LED elements 5 as the real production on the basis of the deviation.
- a new appropriate discharge amount derived by the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 is transmitted to a production execution processing unit 37 .
- the production execution processing unit 37 instructs the coating control unit 36 on the appropriate resin coating amount newly derived.
- the coating control unit 36 controls the nozzle transfer mechanism 34 and the resin discharge mechanism 35 to allow the resin discharge head 32 to execute the production coating processing of coating the resin 8 of the appropriate resin coating amount on each of the LED elements 5 mounted on the substrate 4 .
- the resin 8 of the appropriate resin coating amount defined according to the resin coating information 14 is first really coated, and the light emitting characteristics are measured in a state the resin 8 is uncured.
- a good quality product range of the light emitting characteristic measurement value is set when the light emitting characteristics are measured on the resin 8 coated in the production coating on the basis of the obtained measurement result, and the good quality product range is used as a threshold value (refer to threshold data 81 a illustrated in FIG. 9 ) of quality determination in the production coating.
- the LED elements 5 are used as the light source units for light emitting characteristic measurement.
- the light emitting characteristics defined in advance which is a basis of the threshold setting of the quality determination in the production coating
- the light emitting characteristics that are slanted from the regular light emitting characteristics obtained for the completed product in which the resin 8 coated on each of the LED elements 5 is cured are, by a difference of the light emitting characteristics due to the uncured state of the resin 8 .
- the control of the resin coating amount in the process of coating the resin on the LED elements 5 can be conducted on the basis of the regular light emitting characteristics of the completed product.
- the management computer 3 the component mounting device M 1 , and the resin coating device M 4 represent the constituent elements related to the transmission and reception and updating processing of the element characteristic information 12 , the resin coating information 14 , the map data 18 , and the above-mentioned threshold data 81 a.
- the management computer 3 includes a system control unit 60 , a storage unit 61 , and a communication unit 62 .
- the system control unit 60 controls an LED package manufacturing operation by the LED package manufacturing system 1 in the lump.
- the storage unit 61 are stored a program and data necessary for control processing by the system control unit 60 as well as the element characteristic information 12 , the resin coating information 14 , and further as occasion demands, the map data 18 and the threshold data 81 a .
- the communication unit 62 is connected to other devices through the LAN system 2 , and transfer a control signal and data.
- the element characteristic information 12 and the resin coating information 14 are transmitted from the external through the LAN system 2 and the communication unit 62 , or via an independent storage medium such as a CD ROM, and stored in the storage unit 61 .
- the component mounting device M 1 includes a mounting control unit 70 , a storage unit 71 , a communication unit 72 , a mechanism driver unit 73 , and the map creation processing unit 74 .
- the mounting control unit 70 controls the respective units described below, on the basis of a variety of programs and data stored in the storage unit 71 .
- the storage unit 71 are stored a program and data necessary for control processing by the system control unit 70 as well as the mounting position information 71 a and the element characteristic information 12 .
- the mounting position information 71 a is created by execution history data of the execution operation control by the mounting control unit 70 .
- the element characteristic information 12 is transmitted from the management computer 3 through the LAN system 2 .
- the communication unit 72 is connected to other devices through the LAN system 2 , and transfers the control signal and the data.
- the mechanism driver unit 73 is controlled by the mounting control unit 70 , and drives the component supply mechanism 25 and the component mounting mechanism 26 .
- the map creation processing unit 74 (map data creating unit) conducts processing of creating the map data 18 associating the mounting position information 71 a indicative of the positions of the LED elements 5 mounted by the component mounting device M 1 on the substrate 4 with the element characteristic information 12 on the LED elements 5 , which are stored in the storage unit 71 for each substrate 4 . That is, the map data creating unit is disposed in the component mounting device M 1 and the map data 18 is transmitted from the component mounting device M 1 to the resin coating device M 4 .
- the map data 18 may be transmitted from the component mounting device M 1 to the resin coating device M 4 through the management computer 3 . In this case, as illustrated in FIG. 9 , the map data 18 is also stored in the storage unit 61 of the management computer 3 .
- the resin coating device M 4 includes the coating control unit 36 , a storage unit 81 , a communication unit 82 , the production execution processing unit 37 , the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 , and the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 .
- the coating control unit 36 controls the nozzle transfer mechanism 34 , the resin discharge mechanism 35 , and the trial coating and measurement unit 40 configuring the resin coating portion C to conduct processing of executing the measurement coating processing of coating the resin 8 on the translucent member 43 on trial as the light emitting characteristic measurement, and the production coating processing of coating the resin 8 on the LED elements 5 as the real production.
- the storage unit 81 are stored a program and data necessary for control processing by the coating control unit 36 as well as the resin coating information 14 , the map data 18 , and the threshold data 81 a , and a real production coating amount 81 b .
- the resin coating information 14 is transmitted from the management computer 3 through the LAN system 2 , and likewise the map data 18 is transmitted from the component mounting device M 1 through the LAN system 2 .
- the communication unit 82 is connected to other devices through the LAN system 2 , and transfers the control signal and the data.
- the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 conducts processing of irradiating the resin 8 coated on the translucent member 43 with the excitation light emitted from the LED elements 5 which are the light source units to measure the light emitting characteristics of a light emitted by this resin.
- the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 conducts arithmetic processing of obtaining a deviation between the measurement result of the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 and the light emitting characteristics defined in advance, and deriving the appropriate resin coating amount of the resin 8 to be coated on the LED elements 5 as the real production on the basis of the deviation.
- the production execution processing unit 37 instructs the coating control unit 36 on the appropriate resin coating amount derived by the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 to execute the production coating processing of coating the resin of the appropriate resin coating amount on the LED elements 5 .
- the processing function other than the function for executing the work operation specific to the respective devices for example, the function of the map creation processing unit 74 provided in the component mounting device M 1 , and the function of the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 provided in the resin coating device M 4 do not always need to be attached to the above devices.
- the functions of the map creation processing unit 74 and the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 may be covered by the arithmetic processing function provided in the system control unit 60 of the management computer 3 to transfer necessary signal through the LAN system 2 .
- both of the component mounting device M 1 and the resin coating device M 4 are connected to the LAN system 2 .
- the management computer 3 in which the element characteristic information 12 is stored in the storage unit 61 , and the LAN system 2 configure element characteristic information providing unit for providing the component mounting device M 1 with information obtained by measuring the light emitting characteristics including the light emitting wavelengths of the plurality of LED elements 5 in advance, individually, as the element characteristic information 12 .
- the element characteristic information providing unit for providing the component mounting device M 1 with the element characteristic information 12 and the resin information providing unit for providing the resin coating device M 4 with the resin coating information 14 are configured to transmit the element characteristic information and the resin coating information read from the storage unit 61 in the management computer 3 , which is external storage unit, to the component mounting device M 1 and the resin coating device M 4 through the LAN system 2 , respectively.
- the LED package manufacturing system 1 acquires the element characteristic information 12 and the resin coating information 14 (ST 1 ). That is, the LED package manufacturing system 1 acquires the element characteristic information 12 obtained by measuring the light emitting characteristics including the light emitting wavelengths of the plurality of LED elements 5 in advance, individually, and the resin coating information 14 associating the appropriate resin coating amount of the resin 8 for obtaining the transparent resin 80 having the specified light emitting characteristics with the element characteristic information 12 , from the external device through the LAN system 2 , or via the storage medium.
- the substrate 4 to be mounted is carried in the component mounting device M 1 (ST 2 ). Then, as illustrated in FIG. 16A , the transfer pin 24 a of the adhesive transfer mechanism 24 is moved up and down (arrow j) to supply the resin adhesive 23 to the element mounting position within the LED mounting portion 4 b . Thereafter, as illustrated in FIG. 16B , the LED element 5 held by the mounting nozzle 26 a of the component mounting mechanism 26 is moved down (arrow k), and mounted within the LED mounting portion 4 b of the substrate 4 through the resin adhesive 23 (ST 3 ).
- the map data 18 associating the mounting position information 71 a with the element characteristic information 12 of the respective LED elements 5 for the substrate 4 is created by the map creation processing unit 74 from the execution data of the component mounting operation (ST 4 ). Then, the map data 18 is transmitted to the resin coating device M 4 from the component mounting device M 1 and also the resin coating information 14 is transmitted to the resin coating device M 4 from the management computer 3 (ST 5 ). As a result, the resin coating operation is executable by the resin coating device M 4 .
- the substrate 4 on which the component has been mounted is transmitted to the curing device M 2 , and heated, as a result of which, as illustrated in FIG. 16C , the resin adhesive 23 is thermally cured into the resin adhesive 23 *, and each of the LED elements 5 is fixed to the piece substrate 4 a .
- the substrate 4 on which the resin has been cured is transmitted to the wire bonding device M 3 , and as illustrated in FIG. 16D , the wiring layers 4 e and 4 d of the piece substrate 4 a are connected to the n-type electrode 6 a and the p-type electrode 6 b of the LED element 5 by the bonding wires 7 .
- the LED package manufacturing system 1 executes the threshold data creation processing for the quality determination (ST 6 ).
- This processing is executed to set the threshold value (refer to the threshold data 81 a illustrated in FIG. 9 ) of the quality determination in the production coating, and the respective production coatings corresponding to the Bin codes [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5] are iteratively executed.
- the details of the threshold data creation processing will be described with reference to FIGS. 11, 12, and 13 .
- the resin 8 containing the phosphor with a pure concentration specified by the resin coating information 14 is prepared (ST 11 ).
- the resin discharge head 32 is moved to the trial coating stage 45 of the trial coating and measurement unit 40 to coat the resin 8 of the specified coating amount (appropriate resin coating amount) specified by the resin coating information 14 on the translucent member 43 (ST 12 ). Then, the resin 8 coated on the translucent member 43 is moved onto the translucent member mounting portion 41 , and the LED element 5 emits a light to measure the light emitting characteristics in a state where the resin 8 is uncured, by the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 (ST 13 ).
- the good quality product determination range of the measurement value for determining that the light emitting characteristics are indicative of the good quality product is set on the basis of a light emitting characteristic measurement value 39 a which is the measurement result of the light emitting characteristics measured by the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 (ST 14 ).
- the set good quality product determination range is stored in the storage unit 81 as the threshold data 81 a , and also transferred to the management computer 3 and stored in the storage unit 61 (ST 15 ).
- FIG. 12 illustrates the threshold data thus created, that is, the good quality product determination range (threshold value) of the measurement value for determining, as the good quality product, the light emitting characteristic measurement value and the light emitting characteristics obtained in the uncured state of the resin after the resin 8 containing the phosphor of the pure content therein has been coated.
- FIGS. 12A, 12B, and 12C illustrate the threshold values corresponding to the Bin codes [1], [2]. [3], [4], and [5] when the phosphor concentration in the resin 8 is 5%, 10%, and 15%.
- the coating amounts indicated by the respective appropriate resin coating amount 15 ( 1 ) correspond to the respective Bin codes 12 b .
- the measurement results obtained by measuring the light emitting characteristics of the light emitted from the resin 8 by the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 by irradiating the resin 8 coated with the respective coating amounts with the blue light of the LED elements 5 are indicated by the light emitting characteristic measurement values 39 a ( 1 ).
- the threshold data 81 a ( 1 ) is set on the basis of the respective light emitting characteristic measurement values 39 a ( 1 ).
- the measurement results obtained by measuring the light emitting characteristics of the resin 8 coated with the appropriate resin coating amount VA 0 corresponding to the Bin code [1] are represented by chromaticity coordinates ZA 0 (X A0 , Y A0 ) on a chromaticity table illustrated in FIG. 13 .
- Given ranges (for example, ⁇ 10%) of the X coordinate and the Y coordinate on the chromaticity table, relative to the chromaticity coordinates ZA 0 are as the good quality product determination range (threshold value).
- the respective good quality product determination ranges are set on the basis of the light emitting characteristic measurement results (refer to the chromaticity coordinates ZB 0 to ZE 0 on the chromaticity table illustrated in FIG. 13 ).
- the given range set as the threshold value is appropriately set according to a precision level of the light emitting characteristics obtained for the LED package 50 as the product.
- FIGS. 12B and 12C illustrate the light emitting characteristic measurement values and the good quality product determination ranges (threshold values) when the respective phosphor concentrations of the resin 8 are 10% and 15%, likewise.
- the appropriate resin coating amount 15 ( 2 ) and the appropriate resin coating amount 15 ( 3 ) represent the appropriate resin coating amounts when the respective phosphor concentrations are 10% and 15%.
- the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 a ( 2 ) and the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 a ( 3 ) represent the light emitting characteristic measurement values when the respective phosphor concentrations are 10% and 15%
- the threshold data 81 a ( 2 ) and the threshold data 81 a ( 3 ) represent the good quality product determination ranges (threshold values) in the respective cases.
- the threshold data thus created is selectively used according to the Bin code 12 b to which the target LED element 5 belongs in the production coating operation.
- the threshold data creation processing represented in (ST 6 ) may be executed as off-line operation by an independent inspection device provided separately from the LED package manufacturing system 1 , and data stored as the threshold data 81 a in the management computer 3 in advance may be transmitted to the resin coating device M 4 through the LAN system 2 .
- the substrate 4 that has been subjected to the wire bonding is transported to the resin coating device M 4 (ST 7 ), and as illustrated in FIG. 17A , the resin 8 is discharged from the discharge nozzle 33 a into the LED mounting portion 4 b surrounded by the reflector portion 4 c .
- the operation of coating the resin 8 of the specified amount illustrated in FIG. 17B over the LED element 5 is executed on the basis of the map data 18 , the threshold data 81 a , and the resin coating information 14 (ST 8 ).
- the details of the resin coating operation processing will be described with reference to FIGS. 14 and 15 .
- the resin storage container is exchanged to another as occasion demands (ST 21 ). That is, the dispenser 33 installed on the resin discharge head 32 is exchanged to another dispenser 33 that stores the resin 8 having the phosphor concentration selected according to the characteristic of the LED element 5 .
- the resin 8 is coated on translucent member 43 on trial as the light emitting characteristic measurement by the resin coating portion C (measurement coating step) (ST 22 ). That is, the resin 8 of the appropriate resin coating amount (VA 0 to VE 0 ) for each of the Bin codes 12 b specified in FIG. 4 is coated on the translucent member 43 taken out onto the trial coating stage 45 by the trial coating and measurement unit 40 .
- the translucent member 43 coated with the resin 8 on trial is fed, and mounted on the translucent member mounting portion 41 having the LED elements 5 as the light source units that emit the excitation light for exciting the phosphor (translucent member mounting step).
- the resin 8 coated on the translucent member 43 is irradiated with the excitation light emitted from the LED element 5 whereby the light emitted by the resin 8 is received by the spectroscope 42 , and the light emitting characteristics) of the received light are measured by the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 (light emitting characteristic measuring step) (ST 23 ).
- the light emitting characteristic measurement value represented by the chromaticity coordinate Z (refer to FIG. 13 ) is obtained.
- the measurement results do not always match the light emitting characteristics defined in advance due to an error of the coating amount and a change in the concentration of the phosphor grains in the resin 8 described above, that is, the standard chromaticity coordinates ZA 0 to ZE 0 at the appropriate resin coating time illustrated in FIG. 12A .
- the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 obtains deviation ( ⁇ X A , ⁇ Y A ) to ( ⁇ X E , ⁇ Y E ) indicative of a gap in the X- and Y-coordinates between the obtained chromaticity coordinates ZA 1 to ZE 1 , and the standard chromaticity coordinates ZA 0 to ZE 0 at the appropriate resin coating time illustrated in FIG. 12A . Then, the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 determines whether a correction for obtaining desired light emitting characteristics is necessary, or not.
- the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 compares the deviation obtained in (ST 23 ) with the threshold value to determine whether the deviation ( ⁇ X A , ⁇ Y A ) to ( ⁇ X E , ⁇ Y E ) fall within ⁇ 10% of ZA 0 to ZE 0 , or not. In this example, if the deviation falls within the threshold value, the discharge operation parameters corresponding to the preset appropriate resin coating amounts VA 0 to VE 0 are maintained as they are. On the contrary, if the deviation exceeds the threshold value, the coating amount is corrected (ST 25 ).
- the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 obtains the deviation between the measurement result in the light emitting characteristic measuring step and the light emitting characteristics defined in advance, and executes processing of deriving new appropriate resin coating amounts (VA 2 to VE 2 ) for real production to be coated on the LED element 5 on the basis of the obtained deviation, as illustrated in FIG. 15D (coating amount derivation processing step).
- the appropriate resin coating amounts (VA 2 to VE 2 ) that have been corrected are updated values obtained by adding corrects corresponding to the respective deviations of the preset appropriate resin coating amounts VA 0 to VE 0 .
- a relationship between the deviation and the correction is recorded in the resin coating information 14 as the known associated data in advance.
- the processing of (ST 22 ), (ST 23 ), (ST 24 ), and (ST 25 ) is iteratively executed on the basis of the corrected appropriate resin coating amounts (VA 2 to VE 2 ). It is confirmed in (ST 24 ) that the deviation between the measurement results and the light emitting characteristics defined in advance fall within the threshold value to decide the appropriate resin coating amount for real production.
- the measurement coating step, the translucent member mounting step, the light emitting characteristic measuring step, and the coating amount deriving step are iteratively executed to determinately derive the appropriate resin coating amount. Then, the determined appropriate resin coating amount is recorded in the storage unit 81 as the real production coating amount 81 b.
- the production coating is executed (ST 31 ). That is, the production execution processing unit 37 instructs the coating control unit 36 that controls the resin discharge mechanism 35 on the appropriate resin coating amount derived by the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 and stored as the real production coating amount 81 b , to thereby execute the production coating processing of coating the resin 8 of the appropriate resin coating amount on the LED element 5 mounted on the substrate 4 (production executing step).
- the number of coating by the dispenser 33 is counted, and it is monitored whether the number of coatings reaches a given number of times, or not (ST 32 ). That is, until the number of coatings reaches the given number of times, it is determined that a change in the property of the resin 8 and the phosphor concentration D 1 is small, and the production coating execution (ST 31 ) is iteratively conducted while maintaining the identical real production coating amount 81 b . Then, if it is confirmed that the number of coatings reaches the given number of times in (ST 32 ), it is determined that there is a possibility that the property of the resin 8 and the phosphor concentration are changed. The flow returns to (ST 22 ). Subsequently, likewise, the measurement of the light emitting characteristics and the coating amount correction processing based on the measurement result are iteratively executed.
- the substrate 4 Upon completion of the resin coating for a single substrate 4 in this way, the substrate 4 is transmitted to the curing device M 5 , and heated by the curing device M 5 to cure the resin 8 (ST 9 ). As a result, as illustrated in FIG. 17C , the resin 8 coated over the LED element 5 is thermally cured into the resin 8 *, and firmly fixed within the LED mounting portion 4 b . Then, the substrate 4 that has been subjected to the resin curing is transmitted to the piece cutting device M 6 . In the piece cutting device M 6 , the substrate 4 is cut into each of the piece substrates 4 a , and divided into the piece LED packages 50 as illustrated in FIG. 17D (ST 10 ). With the above operation, the LED package 50 is completed.
- the LED package manufacturing system 1 includes: the component mounting device M 1 that mounts a plurality of LED elements 5 on the substrate 4 ; the
- element characteristic information providing unit for providing the information obtained by measuring the light emitting wavelength of the plurality of LED elements 5 in advance, individually, as element characteristic information 12 ; the resin information providing unit for providing the information associating the appropriate resin coating amount of the resin 8 for obtaining the LED package 50 having the specified light emitting characteristics with the element characteristic information 12 , as resin coating information 14 ; the map data creating unit for creating the map data 18 associating the mounting position information 71 a indicative of the positions of the LED elements 5 mounted by the component mounting device M 1 on the substrate 4 with the element characteristic information 12 on the LED elements 5 for each substrate 4 ; and the resin coating device M 4 that coats the resin 8 of the appropriate resin coating amount for providing specific light emitting characteristics on the respective LED elements mounted on the substrate 4 , on the basis of the map data 18 and the resin coating information 14 .
- the resin coating device M 4 includes: the resin coating portion C that discharges the resin 8 of the variable coating amount to coat the resin 8 at an arbitrary position to be coated; the coating control unit 36 that controls the resin coating portion C to execute the measurement coating processing of coating the resin 8 on the translucent member 43 on trial as the light emitting characteristic measurement, and to execute the production coating processing of coating the resin 8 on the LED elements as the real production; the translucent member mounting unit 41 having the light source unit that emits the excitation light for exciting the phosphor, on which the translucent member 43 coated with the resin 8 on trial in the measurement coating processing is mounted; the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 that irradiates the resin 8 coated on the translucent member 43 with the excitation light emitted from the light source unit to measure the light emitting characteristics of the light emitted by the resin 8 ; the coating amount derivation processing unit 38 that obtains the deviation between the measurement result of the light emitting characteristic measurement unit 39 and the light emitting characteristics specified in advance, and corrects the appropriate resin coating amount on the basis of the deviation to derive the appropriate
- the translucent member 43 coated with the resin 8 as the light emitting characteristic measurement is mounted on the translucent member mounting portion 41 having the light source unit, and the resin coated on the translucent member 43 is irradiated with the excitation light emitted from the light source unit to obtain the deviation between the measurement result obtained by measuring the light emitting characteristic of the light emitted from the resin, and the light emitting characteristic specified in advance, and the appropriate resin coating amount of the resin to be coated on the LED element as the real production can be derived on the basis of this deviation.
- the light emitting wavelengths of the piece LED elements 5 are varied, the even light emitting characteristics of the LED package 50 can be achieved to improve the production yield.
- the respective devices of the management computer 3 and the component mounting device M 1 to the piece cutting device M 6 are connected to each other by the LAN system 2 .
- the LAN system 2 is not always essentially required in configuration. That is, there is the storage unit that is prepared in advance and stores the element characteristic information 12 and the resin coating information 14 , which are transmitted from the external, for each of the LED packages 50 . If there is data providing unit that can provide the element characteristic information 12 to the component mounting device M 1 , and the resin coating information 14 and the map data 18 to the resin coating device M 4 , from the storage unit, any time as occasion demands, the function of the LED package manufacturing system 1 according to this embodiment can be realized.
- the present invention is based on Japanese Patent Application No. 2010-240468 filed on Oct. 27, 2010, and content thereof is incorporated herein by reference.
- the LED package manufacturing system and the resin coating method according to the present invention have such advantages which can achieve the even light emitting characteristics of the LED package to improve the production yield even if the light emitting wavelengths of the pieces of LED elements are varied, and is available in the field of manufacturing the LED package with the configuration in which the LED element is covered with the resin containing the phosphor.
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Description
- Patent Literature 1: JP-A-2007-66969
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- 1, LED package manufacturing system
- 2, LAN system
- 4, substrate
- 4 a, piece substrate
- 4 b, LED mounting portion
- 4 c, reflector portion
- 5, LED element
- 8, resin
- 12, element characteristic information
- 13A, 13B, 13C, 13D, 13E, LED sheet
- 14, resin coating information
- 18, map data
- 23, resin adhesive
- 24, adhesive transfer mechanism
- 25, component supply mechanism
- 26, component mounting mechanism
- 32, resin discharge head
- 33, dispenser
- 33 a, discharge nozzle
- 40, trial coating and measurement unit
- 41, translucent member mounting portion
- 42, spectroscope
- 43, translucent member
- 45, trial coating stage
- 50, LED package
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